Adding a Hard Drive to Increase Available Disk Space Unified Visitor Management amigopod Technical Note Revision 1.0 4 October 2010 United States of America +1 (888) 590-0882 Europe, Middle East & Asia +34 91 766 57 22 Australia & Pacific +61 2 8669 1140 http://www.amigopod.com Copyright © 2010 amigopod. All rights reserved.
Adding a Hard Drive to Increase Available Disk Space Version 1.0 Table of Contents Introduction ..............................................................................................................................3 Audience ............................................................................................................................. 3 Document Overview ............................................................................................................
Adding a Hard Drive to Increase Available Disk Space Version 1.0 Introduction This technical note explains how to increase available disk space in a VMWare based appliance. Our default virtual machines ship with an 8 GB disk, which is suitable for most deployments. For a deployment requiring enhanced logging, or disk usage, this guide will step you through the required actions. Note that the rack mount VMA appliances cannot have hard drives added. This guide is for virtual machines only.
Adding a Hard Drive to Increase Available Disk Space Version 1.0 Adding a Hard Drive Please refer to your VMWare documentation for changes specific to your version and platform. This example uses Server 2.0. Safely Power Off the VMA Make sure the virtual machine is powered off. If VMWare is configured to send the soft reset signal to the operating system, this can be dine within VMWare. To be safe, the Amigopod UI has a Shutdown action under Administrator > System Control.
Adding a Hard Drive to Increase Available Disk Space Version 1.0 Run through the Add wizard and select the options that suit your deployment. In this example we will add a second 8 GB disk utilizing all the VMWare defaults. Select Hard. Select Create a New Virtual.
Adding a Hard Drive to Increase Available Disk Space Version 1.0 Select the hard drive options. Finish the add hardware wizard and power on the server.
Adding a Hard Drive to Increase Available Disk Space Version 1.0 The VMA should power up and you should see two hard drives in its setup.
Adding a Hard Drive to Increase Available Disk Space Version 1.0 Allocating the New Hard Disk Check Plugin Versions Allocating extra disk space requires the following plugin versions: § amigopod Administrator 3.0.2 or later To verify you have the correct plugin versions installed, navigate to Administrator > Plugin Manager > Manage Plugins and check the version number in the list. Use the Update Plugins link to download and install updated plugins.
Adding a Hard Drive to Increase Available Disk Space NOTE Version 1.0 Though we support adding multiple partitions, it is highly recommended to leave the Last Cylinder selection blank. Depending on your disk size, Allocate Space should take about 10 seconds. If the action takes longer than 60 seconds, refresh the page (do not resubmit).
Adding a Hard Drive to Increase Available Disk Space Version 1.0 If you return to the System Information page, you will see the new allocation. The space is now ready for use.
